Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes About Character

• El descubrimiento de Kepler no habría sido posible sin la doctrina de las cónicas. Ahora bien, contemporáneos de Kepler -mentes tan penetrantes como Descartes y Pascal- abandonaban el estudio de la geometría... porque decían que era TOTALMENTE INÚTIL. El porvenir de la humanidad temblaba en la balanza, pues si la geometría de las secciones cónicas no hubiera sido ya en gran parte elaborada, y si no se hubiera mantenido la opinión de que sólo debían estudiarse las ciencias aparentemente útiles, el siglo XIX no habría tenido ninguno de los caracteres que lo distinguen del Antiguo Régimen.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Science, Race

• A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Law, Quality

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, Arthur Walter Burks (1960). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce : Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss: Principles of philosophy and Elements of logic”

• When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Mind, May

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.31, Harvard University Press

• The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Ought, Universe

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.183, Indiana University Press

• When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Negative, Said

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.47, Indiana University Press

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